ECONOMICS AND THE LEFT

Economics and the Left presents interviews with 24 leading progressive economists whose life work has been dedicated to both interpreting the world and changing it for the better They all deploy the technical tools of their trade the dismal science in various ways Much more importantly they are all people dedicated to the principles of egalitarianism democracy and ecological sanity The result is a combustible brew of ideas commitments and reflections on major historical events including the COVID 19 pandemic and resulting global economic recession Interviewed are Michael Ash Nelson Henrique Barbosa Filho James K Boyce Ha Joon Chang Jane D Arista Diane Elson Gerald Epstein Nancy Folbre James K Galbraith Teresa Ghilarducci Jayati Ghosh Ilene Grabel Costas Lapavitsas Zhongjin Li William Milberg Léonce Ndikumana Ozlem Onaran Robert Pollin Malcolm Sawyer Juliet Schor Anwar Shaikh William Spriggs Fiona Tregenna Thomas Weisskopf